Coliseu Porto Ageas celebrates Easter with Wagner's Parsifal
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Coliseu Porto Ageas and National Theatre São Carlos celebrate Easter, with the meaningful presentation of Wagner's Parsifal, on 12 April.
This was the German composer Richard Wagner's last piece and it took him twenty-five years to finish it. It is an opera in three acts and it is based on Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, a 13th-century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail (12th century).
For this celebration, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, Coliseu Porto Ageas brings tenor Erin Caves to Portugal to play Parsifal, a work described by Wagner not as an opera, but as "a Festival Play for the Consecration of the Stage", whose music is on the whole unusually solemn and slow.
The Choir of the National Theatre São Carlos adds great visual and musical depth to the production and the Portuguese Symphonic Orchestra includes the artistic ensemble of the production.